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Pravda Vostoka

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Pravda Vostoka
TypeDaily Newspaper
FormatPrint, online
Owner(s)Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Founded1917
Political alignmentPro-government
LanguageRussian
Websitehttps://www.pv.uz/

Pravda Vostoka (Russian: Правда Востока, lit. The Truth of the East) is a Russian language newspaper published in Uzbekistan.

History and profile

The paper was founded in 1917 under the name Nasha gazeta (Наша газета, Our newspaper). It was given its current name in 1924, and was the main Russian language newspaper of the Uzbek SSR. It had a print run of 250,000 newspapers (1975).

Abbashon Usmanov was appointed editor-in-chief of the daily in July 2006.[1]

References

  1. ^ "New chief editor appointed to Khalq Sozi – Narodnoye Slovo newspapers". UzReport. 3 July 2006. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2014.